7 PRACTICES FOR THE FUTURE

How can you anticipate and adapt to all of the possibilities in the future and be ready for the changes it brings? Based on years of working on the future with organizations worldwide and hundreds of conversations with experts, scientists, leaders and teams, these 7 practices will allow you to be ready for any possible future. We can train you how to apply these practices so you and your team can create the future you wish to see in an experiential learning program.

The seven practices are about: change, design, strategy, culture, impact, learning and systems. Find out what you can learn with your team on each of these practices.

Every organization is a complex system. In order to turn an organization into an adaptive ecosystem that can withstand external shocks and anticipate changes flexibly it is essential to be able to observe the entirety of the system and find the right levels of intervention…
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Continuous learning is a foundational practice for every futures ready individual. The future can never be predicted and this means that you have to train yourself to always be exploring new things…
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Being ready for changes that might come your way in the near future, requires you to be adaptive with the way that you work. In other words: your working culture should transform in reaction to external shifts…
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What drives and stimulates people to change their day-to-day routines to new ways of working and being? That question is at the heart of the futures ready practice on impact. It is the smallest possible intervention that will have the biggest impact on your course for the future…
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It is often said that the best way to predict the future is to create it. How do you do that? Design thinking is an effective practice to create solutions for real problems that people experience today…
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What will happen in the near future is uncertain. Nobody can predict where we will end up and more than ever before we are living in a world that is extremely volatile. Change seems to be the only constant we can still rely on…
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If the future can’t be predicted, then why plan for it? This practice turns strategic thinking into an everyday activity and trains you how to involve your entire team and organization into making strategy and executing it…
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EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

We learn best by doing, Aristotle said. Therefore, we are strong believers in a combination between learning and doing. This approach is known as experiential learning. We operate in the area between the external world and the internal world of the participant. In this so called ’transitional space’ participants in our programs can step out of their role as leaders and enter the space of learning a new capability.

Freed from the expectations from themselves and the system around them, they feel as though they are given permission to test and learn new skills. They get the opportunity to practice and try out new behaviors, discuss alternative approaches, obtain honest feedback and advice, create psychological safety, and assess their limiting beliefs to turn the new learning into action.